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FAMILY

By Kay Y. Wehner
Wednesday December 30, 2009 - 09:34:00 AM

No matter how we try, 

insisting we have no brother 

and no sister in the universe, 

we all are a part of it: 

brother to the ant, 

sister to the calendula, 

uncle to the kangaroo, 

and cousin to the star... 

relative of the sloth, 

stepsister to the birch, 

keeper of our ancestors 

in the city zoo. 

 

Deny, embroider, experiment, 

turn the beakers this way and that, 

it all comes out the same again, 

we are embedded, firmly cast, 

just a throbbing part, 

of sea and sand and jellyfish, 

brother to the rock.